Tag Archives: Entertainment

NEW YORK - Peter Nicks had for months been documenting the students of Oakland High School, in California, when the pandemic hit. "It's in the Bay," says one student of the virus as he and others mill...

NEW YORK - Within hours of Amanda Gorman's reading of the inaugural poem last week, bookstores were hearing from their customers. "Hopefully this will be a bridge that brings a lot of people to poetry...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Chinese-Canadian singer says a Chinese corruption charge against her mother, who has been held in custody for six years, has been withdrawn but she remains in detention. Wanting Qu,...

TORONTO - After launching The Black Academy in early December, actor-brothers Shamier Anderson and Stephan James are now planning an awards show to celebrate and uplift Black talent across Canada.But ...

WINNIPEG - Peter Nygard will remain in jail for another week despite his lawyers laying out an updated bail plan for the Canadian fashion king who faces sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the...

LOS ANGELES - Cloris Leachman, an Oscar-winner for her portrayal of a lonely housewife in "The Last Picture Show" and a comedic delight as the fearsome Frau Blcher in "Young Frankenstein" and self-abs...

VICTORIA - A carved stone pillar found at low tide on a beach in Victoria last summer is an Indigenous cultural treasure, the Royal B.C. Museum has confirmed. The museum is working with the Songhees a...

NEW YORK - The Cannes Film Festival, cancelled altogether last year by the pandemic, is postponing this year's edition from May to July in hopes of having an in-person festival. Cannes organizers anno...

BERLIN - A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt before being deported to a co...

NEW YORK - One of the first book-length inside accounts of the coronavirus pandemic will be coming out in June. Lawrence Wright's "The Plague Year," which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier...